Funny, That Doesn’t Look Like a Church…

by Robert Koehler on February 11, 2008

This church in Mokpo look a tad funny? There’s a reason — built in the early 1930s, it was originally a Japanese Buddhist temple. In fact, it’s one of not-even-a-handful of examples of colonial Japanese Buddhist architecture left in Korea (another in Gunsan’s Dongguk-sa, which still functions as a Buddhist temple).